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Got to bed too late last night and woke up too early this morning. While lying in bed, hoping I might fall back asleep, I started reflecting on my life and values. To boil things down, I sorted out the values that are most important to me: honesty, integrity and empathy. I then attempted to define each one and why they are important. Continue reading Investing in Humanity→

I ended up watching Animal Planet while eating my dinner. A show was on about deep sea creatures. There are some bizarre beasties floating around down there. With this one species of fish, the male is about 10 times smaller than the female. He hunts around for a mate and when he finds her and keeps biting at her until he gets a good grip. Then, after a while they become fused and spend the rest of their life together. The male turns into an appendage and is nourished through the food she takes in, providing in exchange a viable stream of sperm. Talk about codependency!

Then there is this shrimp-like thing that craps out a bioluminescent depth charge to evade predators. To think that Earth is just one planet in a small solar system in a small galaxy, in a gigantic universe that we can’t even begin to truly comprehend…

Sometimes when people are looking for a relationship they are subconsciously wanting to fix a perceived flaw or short-coming in themselves. Whether it is the desire to be taller, more attractive, more intelligent, less hairy or whatever, they look for this in their potential lovers. When this is the case, insecurity and neediness come into play and there probably won’t be a genuine meeting of the hearts.